At one point during free agency, it looked like the Las Vegas Raiders had no plan. They lost several starters from the back half of their defense, and they were slow to find replacements, who ended up being low-dollar players with little name recognition.
While this ended up not being a bad thing for the Silver and Black, it took Raider Nation some getting used to, as regimes past have always forked out cash for big-name free agents. Very few of those players actually worked out, but that is what the fan base had become accustomed to.
New general manager John Spytek and head coach Pete Carroll put their heads together and were able to find solid solutions at cornerback and linebacker through free agency and the draft.